What causes Parkinson's disease

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During this period of time, I found that my father's action became a little slow. Sometimes he didn't respond, and his memory became very poor. His hands and feet kept shaking, as if he had Parkinson's disease. Today, let me tell you what causes Parkinson's disease.

What causes Parkinson's disease

The first aspect: brain disease factors: this factor leads to the occurrence of Parkinson's disease, mainly because it leads to multiple lacunar cerebral infarction in the brain stem and basal ganglia, which affects the substantia nigra dopamine striatum pathway. But this kind of patients are often accompanied with pseudobulbar paralysis, tendon hyperreflexia, pathological positive, often with obvious dementia.

The second aspect: infection factors: generally, patients with encephalitis will have Parkinson's disease during the illness period, such as type A encephalitis. Most of them have a latent period of several years after recovery, and gradually appear severe and persistent Parkinson's disease.

The third aspect: drug factors: if you take antipsychotic drugs in your life for a long time, such as phenothiazide and butyryl drugs, you may have symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease, which can disappear completely after withdrawal.

matters needing attention

Parkinson's disease itself is not a fatal disease, generally does not affect life expectancy, but if not treated, the disease will develop faster, patients do not get timely and reasonable treatment, it is easy to lead to decline in body function, and even life can not take care of themselves, high disability rate.